What happens when a resident's mailbox is damaged during the winter?
The Town of Clay Highway Department under NO CIRCUMSTANCES will repair or replace a homeowner's mailbox that fall under these conditions:
Spindle type wooden post
Plastic of any kind (including Rubbermaid green surround)
Any post, including metal, which was already in unstable or poor condition
A mailbox that was popped off the cross member from the weight of pushed snow (if your mailbox shows no damage, but is just laying there, chances are it was not hit by the plow but the weight of pushed snow took the box off the support)
No paper tube will be reinstalled, repaired or replaced
Any that is located on a County or State maintained Highway
Any damaged decorative type will be replaced with our standard replacement. All mailbox posts will be replaced with a standard treated 4 X 4. All unusable mailboxes will be replaced with a standard mailbox with NO EXCEPTIONS.
***The highway department is no longer taking mailbox damage assessment requests for the winter season of 2011-2012. All qualifying mailboxes that were damaged by the town snowplow needed to be reported by March 16, 2012.
